In sorrow, my mother and father cry But they need not fear.

He didn't think he'd ever seen his father cry in public before.

So much for the role reversal of having his father cry in his arms.

I was 26 years old before I saw my father cry.

A. The first time I ever saw my father cry was after he heard that they were not going to accept me back into school.

It was the first time I saw my father cry.

He'd never seen his father cry; the sight unsettled him.

This is the first time that the narrator witnesses his father cry.

I don't think that I had ever seen my father cry.

Seeing his best friend so close to death was, he says, "like the first time you see your father cry.